Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution to these twin problems is a modification of the tutorial system. All men should be required to do tutorial work during the Sophomore year. At the end of this period, all honor men who desire tutorial should be picked out to continue during Junior and Senior year with their tutors just as at present. Such men should be designated distinctly and separated from the rest of the College. All others should be officially dropped from the tutorial system, assigned to an adviser, and most important, be required to take an extra course for a degree...
Louis F. Fieser for a study of organic chemicals which produce cancer compounds; H. O'Neill Mencken for the fifth Harvard archaeological expedition in Ireland, to conclude the study of the Iron Age and to pursue that of the Early Christian period...
...Honors men fell to about 25 per cent of the class, while several "extraordinary cases" were still found, so that the number of degrees summa cum laude was about 2 per cent of those receiving Honors. The total number of degrees remained about the same as in the preceding period...
Since 1921, when the rules for Honors were practically the same as they are today, the number of men receiving Honors has risen sharply from 23 per cent to 42 per cent of the class last year. During this period the total number of degrees conferred was about 600. Approximately 7 per cent of the Honors men received summas during this period; the record was set in 1930, when 21 men won highest honors...
...Treasury under President Wilson. Neither could remember the reasons for the sale. C. A. T. & T. long-distance earnings between 1913 and 1935 were shown to have been $400,000,000, or an annual return of 10.9% on investment despite several voluntary rate cuts. In the same period the associated companies made an average of 6.7%. Commission Accountant J. A. Krug noted that while the operating companies were subject to state regulation, A. T. & T.'s long lines department was not. A. T. & T. Vice President Charles Proctor Cooper's explanation: "It is inevitable that earnings on various...